Nature Book Reader
9 November 2011 // nature book reader
Tall Trees, Tough Men by Robert E. Pike (New York: W.W. Norton, 1967). Chosen for the Caught by the River Nature Book Reader by James Fox. Nineteenth and twentieth-century descriptions from amalgam of sources (first person experience and interviews) all detailing lumber camps and forestry work in the woods of New England. Historic figures and [...]
Nature Book Reader
10 May 2011 // nature book reader
Mr Crabtree Goes Fishing by Bernard Venables. Chosen by Rob St. John. Mr Crabtree – that pipe-smoking, tweed-decked, square-jawed archetype of 1950s man – was the creation of Daily Mirror cartoonist Bernard Venables, initially part of a cartoon strip dispensing gardening advice to readers. At a loss for how to fill the dark, barren winter [...]
Nature Book Reader
17 April 2011 // nature book reader
A Sky Full of Starlings by Stephen Moss Chosen by Cheryl Tipp. I love everything about this book; the striking cover, the intricate reliefs at the start of each chapter, the paper, the shape, but, most importantly, the content. During the course of 2007, Stephen Moss kept a diary of his birding experiences and these [...]
Nature Book Reader Update.
11 November 2010 // nature book reader
Caught by the River reader, Chris MacFarlane suggests ‘A Sand County Almanac’ by Aldo Leopold for inclusion in our Nature Book Reader: To me, A Sand County Almanac is a truly beautiful and mesmerising book which hooked me about 15 years ago whilst at university. I wondered how such a book could be recommended on [...]
Nature Book Reader
29 September 2010 // nature book reader
Bill Drummond on ‘The Natural History of Selbourne’ by Gilbert White Up until the age of 14, my interest in the natural world was focused on fishing, collecting birds eggs and generally spending as much time in the countryside as I could because it was more exciting than being in the town. Half-a-dozen Observer’s Books [...]
The Caught by the River Nature Book Reader
4 September 2010 // nature book reader
Ken Worpole on D.H.Lawrence’s, The White Peacock (1911) It is now some thirty years since I visited Lawrence’s childhood home at 8a Victoria Street, Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, which by then had been modestly adapted as a museum, recreated as it would have been when the Lawrence family lived there. The memory stays strongly with me, of [...]
New Additions to the Nature Book Reader
5 July 2010 // nature book reader
Some British Moths by Norman Riley. Chosen by Edwyn Collins. My interest in all forms of nature, wildlife, geology and rock pools, led me to reference books and books of illustrations rather than to nature writing as such. I didn’t need or want other people’s interpretation of experience; it was my internal world and I [...]
The Public Life of the Street Pigeon
6 June 2010 // nature book reader
from Andrew Male; Exactly like the scene Eric Simms witnessed on the Bakerloo line between Neasden and Finchley Road in 1965: see Andrew’s entry in the Caught by the River Nature Book Reader.
Nature Book Reader – Jeremy Mynott
11 May 2010 // nature book reader
Well, putting the Nature Book Reader together was quite a task and a few mistakes were bound to be made, but this was a big one; the total omission of the contribution from the great Jeremy Mynott. Apologies Jeremy, this oversight has now been corrected. To go some way to make up for this, plus [...]
Nature Book Reader
6 May 2010 // nature book reader
From today, the Caught by the River Nature Book Reader is available to read or download. Each month further contributions will be added making it a constantly updated source of information, whether to be read for pleasure or used for reference. (click HERE). This hasn’t been achieved alone and there are several people that we [...]
